Name: ASPPH Presents: Public Health Law Research Part I: Creating and Using Open-Source Policy Data for Public Health Evaluation Research
Start: 2017-03-29T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2017-03-29T13:00:00-04:00

ASPPH Presents: Public Health Law Research Part I: Creating and Using Open-Source Policy Data for Public Health Evaluation Research

Purpose: To introduce participants to the practice of Policy Surveillance and the various law and policy datasets available through LawAtlas and other open-source portals.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of the webinar, participants will be able to:

Define policy surveillance;

Describe how to use policy surveillance to conduct evaluations of laws and policies;

Identify various sources of open-source legal data; and

Recognize the differences in various sources of legal data and potential limitations in research design an analysis.

Jennifer Ibrahim, PhD (moderator)

Temple University College of Public Health

Scott Burris, JD

Temple University Beasley School of Law, Center for Public Health Law Research

Bryce Pardo

University of Maryland, School of Public Policy

Lindsay Cloud, JD